Product Compare
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6950
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2022 | Dec 2010 |
| Generation | Navi II | Northern Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 2310 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 2815 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 2248 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 64bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 143.9GB/s | 160.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 16 | 22 |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 1408 |
| TMUs | 64 | 88 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| RT Cores | 16 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB per Array | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 512 KB |
| L3 Cache | 16 MB | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 90.08 GPixel/s | 25.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 180.2 GTexel/s | 70.40 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 11.53 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 5.765 TFLOPS | 2.253 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 360.3 GFLOPS | 563.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Navi 24 | Cayman |
| GPU Variant | Navi 24 XT(215-135000006) | Cayman PRO(215-0807019) |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | TeraScale 3 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 6 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 5.4 billion | 2.64 billion |
| Die Size | 107 mm² | 389 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 107W | 200W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 550 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.11x DisplayPort 1.4a | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 5.0 |